A "one in, one out" deal agreed by the UK and French governments on Thursday proposes that for each migrant the UK returns, Britain will accept another who has made a legal claim in France.

The UK and France have agreed to a ‘one in, one out’ migrant deal that will see failed asylum seekers returned to France for the first time since Brexit.

Britain and France agreed Thursday to a pilot plan that will send some migrants who cross the English Channel on small boats back to France as the U.K. government struggles to tamp down criticism that it has lost control of the country’s borders.